Representativeness of survey participants in relation to mental disorders: a linkage between national registers and a population-representative survey.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Surveys and registers have provided important insights into the mental health of the community. However, both sources have strengths and limitations. While participation in surveys has been shown to be lower among those with mental disorders, misclassification and limited information on confounders are typical issues for registers.

Objectives

To examine if participants of the Central Denmark Region's 2017 How are you? survey were representative of the general population in terms of mental disorder diagnoses.

Methods

By linking data from the Central Denmark Region's 2017 How are you? survey with the Danish national registers, we compared the frequency of mental disorder diagnoses among (a) participants in the survey (n = 32,417), before and a

SUBMITTER: Momen NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10161967 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature